Cancer patient Tina Bean, who worked as a nurse for 35 years, is devastated by the delays in her diagnosis and treatmentCancer patients are "being let down" and some are at risk of dying because they are not being treated on time, senior doctors have warned.
The former nurse, who worked for the NHS for 35 years, had an urgent referral to Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford in September last year after going to see her GP."I thought everything must be fine because I hadn't heard anything for so long, so I went on my own to the appointment. My whole world turned upside down," she said.Tina did not have many cancer symptoms but felt something was not quite right so she went to see her GP"The waiting has been horrific.
"As a nurse I wanted to do the best for my patients. Everyone I have seen wants to do their best for me but they're being prevented from doing that." "Cancer patients are being completely let down. We are a modern country, we have got treatments that can cure people and we are just not treating people on time.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)